Commonwealth v. Lopez

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• collecting cases in which circumstances of police officers approaching suspects and asking questions held not to be sufficiently intimidating that reasonable person in suspect's position would have felt compelled to stop and speak with officers
• no seizure where officers merely asked to speak with citizen in absence of intimidating circumstances
• no seizure when an officer beckoned from his cruiser to a cyclist asking, “Can I speak with you?”
• officer motioning at defendant to come to him and asking, \Can I speak with you?\ was not seizure
• no seizure where police followed defendant but did not issue any orders, block him from leaving, or activate cruiser's blue lights
• \[N]ot every encounter between a law enforcement official and a member of the public constitutes [a seizure]\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Crain v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-06-30· cited 681×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-02-26· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Lyles
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-05-15· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Franklin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-05-17· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Resende
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-06-09· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Jordan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-07-14· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Evans
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2015-07-31· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2019-07-22· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Warren
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2015-06-10· cited 2×
• Crain, Sheldon Keith
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-06-30
• Commonwealth v. Shane S., a juvenile
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-09-27
• Commonwealth v. Matta
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-10-21
• Commonwealth v. Rafe R.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-02-23
• Commonwealth v. Pinckney
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-06-11
• Commonwealth v. Rivera
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-06-11
• United States v. Smith
  D. Massachusetts· 2015-01-16
• Commonwealth v. Jose Reyes
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2020-12-04
• Commonwealth v. Luis Jose Romero
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2025-09-12
• Commonwealth v. Byron Palmer
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2025-09-19

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• United States v. Mendenhall
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 6,313×
• Commonwealth v. Scott
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-01-08· cited 225×
• Commonwealth v. Stoute
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-05-30· cited 178×
• Commonwealth v. Jimenez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-12-12· cited 163×
• Commonwealth v. Borges
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-08-28· cited 162×
• Commonwealth v. Fraser
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-07-02· cited 130×
• Commonwealth v. DePeiza
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2007-06-15· cited 126×
• Commonwealth v. Barros
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-09-28· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Smigliano
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-05-20· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Rock
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-05-26· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Van Cao
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-02-01· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Helme
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-02-24· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Sykes
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2007-06-08· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Gunther G.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1998-06-23· cited 19×